Not trying to rebrand the channel into HR or anything.

Just flagging another interesting opportunity for young university graduates to work with the EU Delegation to Uzbekistan and gain experience at their Political, Press, and Informations Section.

Apply by August 28th through this link

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Here's a great free opportunity for anyone interested in scientific research and academic publishing!

ERGO Analytics is launching a free 4-day online summer school offering practical insights on how to properly publish your scientific articles in Scopus-indexed journals.

Four days, four qualified scientists who will mentor you and explain, step by step, how the system works.

The first class starts today at 7 PM — about 2 hours from now (apologies for the short notice, I only just found out myself).

Participation is completely free of charge, so don't miss it!

Details are available at @publishlab_hive.

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An excellent opportunity to learn about research in Economics and Social Sciences in general.

Don’t miss out on this

We had the longest, and probably one of the most engaging, Friday Talks with Humoyun aka Abdumavlon last week.

He shared his personal journey, the mistakes he made, and advice for the young scholars in our community. I personally found it to be an eye-opening and very candid talk, where the guest was brave enough to go beyond the cliches and demystify many misconceptions.

He also shared a great resource for those who are thinking about conducting research, how to brainstorm ideas, etc.

Save it and share it with your friends and colleagues.

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We’re starting in 1 hour: A Friday Talk with Dr. Rohen Shah, an economics lecturer at Yale.

Before Yale, he went from math instructor to a PhD at the University of Chicago, working under Ariel Kalil and John List, two of the biggest names in experimental economics and early childhood research.

Join us to hear about his research, his path there, and what he'd tell anyone aiming at the same. Bring your questions.

See you at 7:00 PM 👇
https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/94016979118?pwd=hLx74GY3ZN9dPtlvGGHlvs4k3eXWoO.1


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We have started. Feel free to join. It is a very informal yet informative talk

guys, if you flopped SAT, i just want you to know...

that i failed SAT 5 times, the absolute record at the time. my classmates from lyceum used to mock me saying "add taking SAT as an extracurricular activity." there were times when i got LOWER than the previous results, which made me feel so lost. one evening before i took the sat fourth time, i went to my favorite place in tashkent - the small waterfall - and i threw out my calculator, promising myself i'd never retake it again. andd.. i got 740 on the math section... which forced me to take another gap year.

but i couldn't care less what my friends thought about my failed SAT attempts. the last time, i took the test in dubai, free of any pressure coz i had no one around who knew me, i barely got 1500 in superscore. i rejoiced. that score got me into hkust, one of the top universities for economics and finance in the world.

later, i found out that superscoring wasnt even permitted at hkust. but i just didn't know it, and my ignorance was a bliss.

similarly, Jamshidbek, my close friend failed as many SAT tests as i did - he even took more! ultimately tho, he got 1520 on his 7th attempt (in his SECOND GAP YEAR!!), and got into Vanderbilt University, America's #1 uni for education at the time, with full-ride scholarship.

i can tell countless stories alike, but the broader point is failing an august SAT aint the end of your story. in fact, its a test for bigger, more heartbreaking setbacks, rejections. yet both you and i know that you will persist, that no matter what your friends, society, and your inner devil whisper to your ear, you will resist the urge to give up and come out as a winner.

and when you come out as a winner, you will realize all these scores and even uni acceptance matter not - its the journey, the act of aiming to the stars that make this adventure worthwhile.

you can do it, just stay hard, artist!

My friend Shakhboz came up with a very interesting product.

It's a small marketplace to buy, sell, and exchange books between users.

It reminds me of Amazon, which started in 1995 as an online bookstore. Similarly, kitob. is a great peer-to-peer solution for the book-loving community here in Uzbekistan.

I wish all the best to this small but promising project.

Try it out at @kitobdotbot

Tomorrow at YESU we're hosting Farangiz Alinazarova, a graduate student at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, run by the Korea Development Institute — a prominent South Korean government-affiliated economic think tank providing macroeconomic forecasts and public policy research.

This talk should be especially interesting to those thinking about transitioning into economics or research more broadly, given Farangiz's own journey: she studied Preventive Medicine at Tashkent Medical Academy, worked as a Public Health Officer at the Republican Public Health Committee, and then transitioned into development economics and data science.

She has a lot to share about applications and admissions — she was admitted to UCL (one of the top schools of education in the world) with full funding, but turned down the offer.

Join us tomorrow to hear all about it!

Yale, UMich, University of Maryland together in partnership with IDEA are organizing an informational webinar about applying to PhD programs in Economics in the USA.

They will discuss everything about selection process, transcripts, GRE scores, pre-doc situation, letters of recommendation, and everything around application and selection process.

Date and Time: Monday, October 19 at 7 pm Tashkent time
Link for registration

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How to Read for Grad School

In graduate school the work load increases and students will find that they are expected to master two to three times the material that they were used to as an undergraduate. This can be intimidating to the point of overwhelming a student into paralysis. Following these tips should help you master your readings instead of allowing the readings to master you!

1. Read Strategically, Not Linearly. Reading for graduate school is different than reading a book for pleasure. When we read for pleasure we often start at the beginning of the book, reading carefully in a linear fashion. If you do this with your academic material, it will take twice as long and it is likely you won’t retain the right kind of information from the reading. Instead of reading linearly, read strategically. As an academic reader your job is to mine the text you are reading for information. Instead of cruising along the narrative, you need to dive in, find the information you need, and move along to the next stack of readings for class.

If you are reading a book this means you should look over the table of contents, then read the entire introduction carefully. In academic books, the introduction is where the author states all of their main points, the framework they will use, and an outline of what information will be covered in each chapter. Next, look over the last chapter. This is the conclusion, which will restate the main arguments of the author and will often contextualize these arguments in a broader context, suggest next steps, or speculate solutions or alternatives. From here you can go to the parts of the book you want deeper knowledge about. Individual chapters will be laid out similarly to the book structure with an introduction, and middle and the conclusion. Skimming the beginning and end of the chapter will give you the main points, then you can gather evidence by browsing the middle parts of the chapter. Remember, you are not really expected to read every single word of the book; your mandate is to understand the author’s main ideas, arguments, and be able to articulate why this discussion matters.

If you are reading a journal article, start by checking the name of the journal that published the article. This will key you in to the scope and boundaries that the article is working within. Next, carefully read the title and the abstract of the piece. A good abstract should clearly explain the main argument of the article, the kind of evidence the author uses, and a succinct conclusion, or what the author found out. Armed with this information, look over the introduction to see how the author is framing their work, paying attention to the citations they use. This tells you who the author is trying to be in dialogue with. Next, flip to the discussion section. Sometimes this is separate than the conclusion, sometimes not, depending on the disciplinary standards of the author and journal. Read the discussion and conclusion carefully. These sections will explain the author’s main arguments and the “why you should care” piece. Now you can go back through the article armed with the knowledge of where the author is leading you and browse over methods and results sections. Pay attention particularly to images and data visualizations. Note how these things relate to or support the discussion and conclusion sections you read.

Reading strategically instead of linearly will make you a more efficient and effective academic reader. Getting familiar with how different formats of writing are structured will give you the confidence and control to find the information you need in them more efficiently.

2. Take Notes! As you are reading strategically, you absolutely must take notes simultaneously. Otherwise it is guaranteed you will not remember the kinds of details you need to recall in class, in your paper, in your own research down the road. Develop a system of your own whether it is sticking a post-it note in the book and jotting something down, or opening up RefWorks or Zotero, or Word and throwing some notes down as you read. Whatever you do, remember that future you will have NO IDEA what present you is thinking, no matter how brilliant a thought it is. Be specific, include detailed citations and pages numbers for direct quotes so you don’t have to chase them later.

If you are reading as preparation for a class, make sure you are also jotting down 3-5 questions, observations, or provocations that you can use in class for participation. In grad school, everyone is expected to participate on a high level, so have something to say ahead of time to avoid the high-blood pressure that comes from your professor’s cold, hard stare.

3. Be purposeful. Being purposeful in your readings means that as you are moving strategically through the text you are also being deliberate about what you want to glean from the reading, what are meant to glean, and how this fits with the other readings and conversations you have had in class, along with your own life experiences. Ask yourself, “What is the author trying to say? What is motivating her exploration of this topic? What does this research contribute? What academic conversations is the author trying to align with? What are the main arguments of this piece? How does this relate to my other assigned readings?” Going in with these questions in mind will focus you as you read and aid you in pulling out the most relevant information.

4. A Critical Perspective. Lastly, applying a critical perspective in your reading is helpful for situating a reading in broader contexts. Contrary to how it sounds, being critical does not simply mean being negative or criticizing wantonly. Critical perspectives are those that trace and name flows of power: Who has power and who does not? Who benefits from particular social arrangements, and whom do they marginalize? Critical perspectives also question assumptions and values that are implicit in arguments: What values are underlying this work? What experiences and perspectives do these values privilege? How might centering different values or experiences re-frame the argument or conversation? Asking questions like this will help you have deeper conversations about your readings, and really, isn’t that the whole point of graduate school?

Time to make your reading work for you- good luck!

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Standards of what a student must know were rising in the last decades. AI can push the bar even higher

A second factor challenging American education is the increase in the skills students are expected to master. The increase stems from the realization that computer- based technological changes and globalization have eliminated many repetitive jobs that paid good wages in the past and increased the demand for analytical problem- solving skills and communication skills (Levy and Murnane 2004). In response to these changes in the economy, almost all states introduced standards- based educational reforms aimed at assuring that all students master higher- order skills that only a modest minority of students learned in the past.

Figure 4 illustrates the increase in standards by comparing a question from a mathematics test administered to Massachusetts sixth graders in the early 1980s (left column) and a sample question from a Common Core aligned mathematics examination that all Massachusetts eighth graders will take in 2016 (right column). Notice the differences between the two questions in reading level, in mathematical complexity, and in the type of answer required (multiple choice versus open- ended response with explanation required). Standards- based educational reforms make sense as a response to a changing economy. However, they increase the burden on high- poverty schools serving students who lack the vocabulary and background knowledge that are especially important in mastering complex skills.

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